Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Tech Hack

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/09/28/233249/facebook-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-massive-new-hack

* hacker exploited a security flaw in a popular feature of Facebook to steal account credentials of as many as 50 million users.

* a class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of one California resident, Carla Echavarria, and one Virginia resident, Derick Walker. “Both allege that Facebook’s lack of proper security has exposed them and additional potential class members to a significantly increased chance of identity theft as a result of the breach,” reports The Verge.

* From the report:The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges Facebook is guilty of unlawful business practices, deceit by concealment, negligence, and violations of California’s Customer Records Act.

* The plaintiffs want statutory damages and penalties awarded to them and other class members, as well as the providing of credit monitoring services, punitive damages, and the coverage of attorneys’ fees and expenses.

FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/10/01/1438241/fbi-forced-suspect-to-unlock-his-iphone-x-through-face-id

* In what may be a world first, the FBI has forced a suspect to unlock his iPhone X using Apple’s Face ID feature.

* Agents in Columbus, Ohio entered the home of 28-year-old Grant Michalski, who was suspected of child abuse, according to court documents spotted by Forbes.

* With a search warrant in hand, they forced him to put his face on front of the device to unlock it. They were then able to freely search for his photos, chats and any other potential evidence. The FBI started investigating Michalski after discovering his ad on Craigslist titled “taboo.”

Swiss Chalet, Harvey’s, other big chains hit by ‘malware outbreak’

Recipes Unlimited – owns many large canadian restaurants (1,400 locations; Swiss Chalet, Harveys, Milestones, Montanas, East Side Mario’s…) were hit with malwear on Friday.

* The restuarants cannot accept credit or debit (cash only).

Many restaurants are closed a few have remained open but with limited services.

* Can/will malware cause bigger issues in the future?

Here’s every new Android phone being announced in October — it’s going to be a busy month

Oct 3 – LG V40 THINQ, NYC & Seoul Korea.

Small notch and Boom Box speaker.

Oct 4 – Nokia 7.1 Plus, London

Oct 9 – Google Pixel 3, XL & mystery phone? NYC

Oct 10 – Razer Phone 2, Hollywood

Made for gaming.

Oct 11 – Samsung Mystery Phone

4 cameras?

Oct 16 – Huawei Mate 20 & Mate 20 Pro

Water drop notch; In-display fingerprint sensor, triple camera setup.

Oct 17 – OnePlus 6T

Water drop notch, in-display fingerprint sensor, T-Mobile

Google reportedly pays Apple $9 billion per year to stay the default search engine in Safari on iOS

Rod Hall @ Business Insider estimates $9B for 2018 and up to $12B for 2019.

Is this worth it?

Siri already uses Bing when it searches the web.

How would Apple users feel if they get Bing results? Is Google still King?

Some iPhone XS Owners Await Charging Issue Fix in iOS 12

* Some shiny new XS and XS Max phones won’t charge when the screen is off. It only resumes when the screen is tapped awake.

* People have woken up to an uncharged phone after having their phones plugged i...